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Phys. Rev. D 10, 3320–3321 (1974)

Remark on causality and particle localization

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Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt*
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Received 2 July 1974; published in the issue dated 15 November 1974

We show that under quite general assumptions localization of particles in a finite space region at a given time is inconsistent with causality. The same holds for localization in a finite region of space-time. The derivation is short and very simple.

© 1974 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.10.3320
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10.1103/PhysRevD.10.3320
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*On leave from the Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, West Germany.